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Biomedical Research Centre news

New research finds that adult men are significantly more likely to need intensive care treatment for COVID-19

11 Dec 2020, 3:28 p.m.

Adult men have almost three times the odds of needing admission to intensive care and 40% higher odds of dying from COVID-19 than women, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the University of Cape Town.

Promising early results in CAR T-cell trial for common childhood cancer

30 Nov 2020, 6 p.m.

Results from a phase I clinical trial Involving the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) show that CAR T-cell therapy could achieve activity against neuroblastoma tumours, opening the door to progress this approach towards further clini

Inflammatory syndrome in children is not caused by a special strain of coronavirus

16 Nov 2020, 1:38 p.m.

The world’s first genetic study of coronavirus from children with inflammatory syndrome PIMS-TS, led by researchers at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH), suggests characteristics of the human host, rather than of the virus itself

Antibodies from the common cold could help protect against COVID-19

13 Nov 2020, 4:10 p.m.

Common cold antibodies, created by the immune system and found much more commonly in children aged between 6-16, could provide some protection against COVID-19.

Hope of better treatments for rare childhood cancer as disease origin is uncovered

5 Nov 2020, 9:16 a.m.

GOSH researchers are part of a team of scientists who have identified how a rare form of childhood cancer may originate, according to a new study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.